More exposure for Proctor is coming to the Pacific Northwest. On November 15th, the Tacoma Art Museum will open the Haub Family Gallery, a collection of Western American art from over 140 artists, including five Proctor sculptures: the Stalking Panther; Pony Express; Pursued; Buckaroo; and Indian Warrior.

The Haub collection is regarded as one of the top Western American art collections in the country, an ideal home for Proctor’s iconic Western sculptures. Featuring artworks from 1797 through today, the exhibition spans more than 200 years of work displaying the various ways in which historic artists depicted the culture and lifestyle of the American West, as well as its modern day influence. Similar and contrasting ideas of the West are shown through the various images of cowboys, Native Americans, wildlife, landscape, and more.

“It is exciting to see Proctor artworks more predominately displayed in the region where he spent so much of his lifetime,” commented Laura Proctor Ames, Director, A. Phimister Proctor Foundation and Museum. “We’re honored that Proctor’s work is a part of this important collection, bringing the history and stories of the American West to life, in the Pacific Northwest.”

Proctor can also be seen parading through downtown Tacoma on the side of the Tacoma Link, thanks to museum promotional efforts.

Photograph by Peter Raffa, Development Director, Tacoma Art Museum

Also showcased in the collection with Proctor are works by many other master artists from his time, including Charles Russell, Henry Shrady, Paul Manship, and Frederick Remington. All of these sculptors have become staples in the realm of Western American art. Laura Fry, Haub Curator of Western American Art at the Tacoma Art Museum, brings extensive experience to the show, and worked to assemble the exhibition to curate the important art while showing the colorful history of the American West.

You can visit tacomaartmuseum.org for more information on the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Haub Family Galleries. The Galleries open on November 15th and the exhibition will run through Fall of 2015.

Proctor’s “Indian Warrior” is one of seven bronzes on display in “The American West in Bronze” exhibition

After four months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925” is moving to the Denver Art Museum.

The arrival of the exhibition serves as a sort of homecoming for Proctor, who spent much of his childhood in Denver. It was within the Rocky Mountains that Proctor began to seriously pursue his artistic talent.

Nicole Parks, Curatorial Assistant for the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, says staff are not only excited about the exhibition, but also the opportunity to educate and provide tools to visitors that may allow them to appreciate bronze sculpture more fully.

“I have heard people mention that our visitors have a mentality that sculpture is something people bump into when backing up to see a painting,” she says.

“We hope this might change with an exhibition like this.”

The exhibition, which features seven Proctor sculptures, opens May 11th inside of the Hamilton Building.

Also present in Denver are two monumental sculptures done by Proctor: “Broncho Buster” and “On The War Trail.” Both are located in Civic Center, right outside of the Denver Art Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “The American West In Bronze, 1850-1925” exhibition has been active for over a month now. The exhibition captures the American West through iconic bronze sculptures, including seven Proctor sculptures.

Shannon Vittoria, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow of the American Wing, along with Thayer Tolles, the Marcia F. Vilcek Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, have created a blog to supplement and highlight the many facets of the exhibition, including its physical design and a behind-the-scenes look at the audio guide available to visitors. The blog provides added insight into the narrative of the exhibition.

Several Proctor bronzes will be on display in the upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is called “The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925,” and features sixty-five sculptures that are iconic of the “Old West” lifestyle.

From cowboys to wildlife to American Indians, sculptors embraced the turn of the century culture through their artwork. These pieces have become quintessential to most people’s perception of the American West. Proctor was well known in this field with such pieces as “Buckaroo” and “Indian Warrior, ” just to name a few.

There will be four categories within the exhibition: the American Indian, wildlife, the cowboy, and the settler. At least one Proctor bronze will be featured in each of these categories.

A total of twenty-eight artists make up the traveling exhibition, which will start at the MET on December 18, 2013, and leave April 13, 2014. The exhibition will then move to the Denver Art Museum from May 9 – August 31, 2014, and finally end at the Nanjing Museum in China, September 29, 2014 – January 18, 2015.